My Throat! It Burns!

It's flu/cough/cold season again and I've been running a fever, had a sore throat, and hacking my lungs out since Sunday, so I've been confined to my house so that I can rest. It's strange, but whenever I'm feeling fine, I always wish that I could go home and relax, maybe level up an alt, pig out on some junk food, etc. Yet when I am actually forced to be home, I wish that I wasn't sick so I could get out of the house and do something! But I can't, so I wander around the house listlessly, looking for something to do.

I don't feel very hungry, so no gobbling down my sweets; I can't read a book, 'cause my head hurts so much it's hard to concentrate on the words; I can't play any video games on my computer, because staring at the screen (which is pretty close to my face) hurts my eyes after a while; so I usually just go upstairs, lay down on the couch and watch old movies that I've seen a kajabillion times before.

So I'm pretty bored out of my skull. But that got me thinking: What do you guys do when you are sick and confined to home? Do you play video games? Watch movies? Read books?

Comment by garthazin

i play wow, unless im REALLY sick, if im really sick, i play other stuff

Comment by Aizhia

on 2009/10/01 05:57:36

My wife knows that if I'm playing video games, asking for drinks and generally being pathetic, then I'm feeling under the weather. If I'm in bed, sleeping and shunning all human contact, I'm sick.

Comment by Haxzor

on 2009/10/01 06:05:33

Flu season just ended.

Comment by MikadoGG

on 2009/10/01 06:19:16

I read books that I buy in stacks and pile up waiting for just sych an opportunity. If I cannot read I'll listen to audiobooks or watch an old movie. And if I'm not feeling too crappy I play WoW for a little bit at a time.

Comment by fsngnshiekfan

on 2009/10/01 06:19:45

I rarely feel sick, and if I am feeling sick and I am confined to my house I'll be surfing the web/playing wow with the light on my screen turned waaaaaay down

Comment by Elamdri

on 2009/10/01 06:20:33

I was actually rather sick week before last and I had a chick bring me a care package.

Sexiest. Move. Ever.

Comment by Blevlitz

on 2009/10/01 08:06:12

Last December I came down with pnuemonia. If anyone doesn't know, it wipes you out. I was home for a couple days and tried to play WoW. I actually managed to log on, but I could do nothing more than stare at the screen. Here I was with the day of work, no responsibilities, unlimited time and I couldn't play video games. I'll hazard to say I didn't want to play video games.

And that was the most dissapointed I've ever been with myself.

Comment by DCsed

on 2009/10/01 08:18:45

i haven't been sick for 9 years now O.o

Comment by Tigerbait

on 2009/10/01 08:24:20

I remember when Kingdom Hearts came out on PS2, I was lucky enough to be legitimately sick the following 3 days. Whilst nearing the end of the game over the span of those three sick days, I faked for another so that I could finish it :)

Normally while sick, I do a good bit of gaming. Typically I choose an RPG that I haven't played/haven't played in a while to knock out, sleep, and channel surf.

Sometimes it's refreshing to lack productivity.

Comment by Killgore9998

on 2009/10/01 09:46:21

Why not play a few of your favorite console games? I have about a hundred of those things lying around that I wish I had time to get to and replay at any given moment. If I was sick and I couldn't play computer games for whatever reason, you can bet I'll be taking a trip down nostalgic video game memory lane.

Comment by etrin

on 2009/10/01 09:49:13

if you want to get out of the house got to the doctor.if your fever is over 101 don't slow down until you get there.

Best advice I can think of

Comment by Delix

on 2009/10/01 10:04:22

With all of this swine flu going around, I try to do my best in a college environment to NOT get sick. But if I were at home and ill enough to keep me from school, I would be playing video games. Tons of video games.

And when video games get boring, I jump on my laptop, turn on the TV, and relax. I have no school to worry about, no work, no problems. So I can just let loose and enjoy my time.

When on WoW, I enjoy the extra freedom I get during the day to finish dailies and work on alts. Less people on the server means my computer can handle running through Dal like a hot knife through butter.

Comment by Opakh

on 2009/10/01 10:06:11

I was sick last week, on tuesday, that even trying to do my argent dailies wiped me out. I had to do a couple, then go back to bed, rest for a couple of hours, then come back down and finish them.

Comment by trollvink

on 2009/10/01 11:01:45

I usually work for school; then again, I'm never really ill in a way I can't do nothing at all.

Comment by Interest

on 2009/10/01 11:38:46

I usually play video games.

One time, before the end of my high school senior year, I came down with a sore throat and fever. The school immediately thought I had swine flu and told me to take a week off.

Best

Week

Off

Ever.

Comment by LEMPICA

on 2009/10/01 11:54:24

i haven't been sick for 9 years now O.o

i didn't know whether to report you or to quote you.Personally I sleep, whine, read books and watch tv.I get tired very fast so I can't play pc games.

Comment by sunsetcraker

on 2009/10/01 12:02:47

When I'm not sleeping its either a movie, wow, PS3, or this site. When I am really sick I don't care which one, I just want to be left alone.